reply to post by lacrimaererum
JFK - more on the perverted lifestyle
We tend to judge with harshness those we would hold at a distance for our political beliefs. That JFK has so many enemies still today is no real
surprise. He walked a rarely-trod path for a US president and took chances in policy that none had before him. It doesn't make him right in those
things he did... but it does tend to reveal how we expect our leaders to be more than the human being that we ourselves are.
*sigh*
That he had the affair would be no surprise to me. This happens every day in the best of families. JFK just happened to be the POTUS and in the public
spotlight rather than mowing his grass in a residential subdivision.
In one setting, we see everything as if magnified tenfold. In the other, we don't even bother to look.
That's not just who HE was... it is who WE are.